Sentences with phrase «tactical voting at»

The third change is the tempering of an «anyone but the Tories» mood which fuelled tactical voting at the last three elections.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, as a tactical device it was highly successful - certainly many of the primary voters will now feel invested in the candidate and vote for her again at the general election.

Looking at the numbers, reinforced by today's Survation poll, her optimism about the powers of tactical voting don't look very realistic.

Since some factors suggest an increase and some a decline, we will have to wait for the post election surveys to know how tactical voting changes at this election.

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

If all votes are collected and one is chosen at random to pick the winner then there is no opportunity for tactical voting.

There was evidence of tactical voting in some seats - Labour held threatened London seats Islington South and Westminster North by increasing its share of the vote at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I reported from down there last week and while there was a sense of anti-Farage tactical voting, it was not at the level you'd expect for him to actually come third.

This tactical voting also ensures that fewer votes are wasted, but at the cost of giving the FDP more seats than CDU voters would ideally have preferred.

The Liberal Democrats may not have succeeded in «decapitating» key members of the Tory leadership at the last election (Charles Kennedy had hoped to oust David Davis, Michael Howard and Theresa May) but the Conservatives, says The Telegraph's Andrew Pierce, are hopeful that tactical voting and some extra resources could defeat six of Labour's leading faces:

Cable did not say whether he would push for a progressive alliance at the next general election, but as a former Labour councillor many expect he would be keen on the idea of tactical voting to help Lib Dem, Labour and Green candidates to oust Tory MPs.

I deliberately excluded that from my answer for tactical reasons (I didn't want to hurt an extensive answer by downvotes from many P.SE users who vote on pure partisan lines), but there's enough evidence to post a separate answer showing that Trump has a strong basis for claiming there may be fraud - how impactful, if of course impossible to quantify at the moment.

Both Ashcroft and ComRes asked a voting intention question that prompted people to think about their own constituency, candidates and MP to try and get at the personal and tactical voting that Lib Dem MPs are so reliant upon.

While Tory tactical voting has averted a deeper Lib Dem party crisis, the by - election has cost Nick Clegg his governing strategy — his warnings to his party not to seek distinctiveness within the coalition now scrapped in favour of «Operation Detach», and an increasing amount of yellow dissent at every level.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

But if the pattern set in Oldham East and Saddleworth continues, tactical voting will bring a de facto return to a two - party system rendering AV largely irrelevant, at least for the next election in 2015.

It is purely the hard work of the Lib Dems locally which enables this degree of tactical voting to persist at the present time.